Senate approves more wiretapping powers
NYT: The Senate voted on July 9 to approve expanded surveillance powers to the government. Moreover, the bill includes legal immunity for phone companies that cooperated in the National Security Agency wiretapping program after 9/11.
The Times called the bill the “biggest revamping of federal surveillance law in 30 years.” FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, will be significantly changed.
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Surveillance Law had to be addressed sooner or later. Keep in mind the phone companies don’t want to be held accountable for abuse when NSA steps over the line. And lets be clear, with out the telecoms this bill is useless.
Have government agencies run a-muck in recent years? YES. But we need to deploy new technology advancements and yes they do carry a black cloud.
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